Peter Fröhler is Head of the New Technologies, Training and Capacity Building Branch at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He joined UNCTAD in 1977 where he has been working in many different areas of development cooperation. Among others he was Officer-in-Charge of the Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency Division from 2004 to 2006, and in the 1990s he has managed the programme for Customs reform and computerization (ASYCUDA) that has been implemented in 90 countries worldwide. Before coming to UNCTAD he has worked at the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Germany, where he has developed quantitative simulation models. |